Chords with lyrics
The Great Escape - I A minorAm Kloot
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By: dr_silverrose
Originally performed by John Bramwell, the I A minorAm Kloot lead guitar/vocalist, under the
name Johnny Dangerously. Can be found on I A minorAm Kloot's Album "B", a B-side compilation
album, released 2009. Featured prominently in the 2003 BBC Comedy Early Doors, Series 2,
Episode 5.
This is a very simple song with standard chords and strumming, easy to learn, fun to
sing and play.
Standard tuning
C majorC x32010
DmDm xx0231
G+G 320033
FF xx3211
Capo 4
C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC
You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion
FF DmDm G+G
You once thought that on reflection, I've really got it made
C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC
You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses
FF DmDm G+G C majorC
You suffered small abuses, and settled for their pay
FF DmDm G+G C majorC
You want to learn to live like an aristocrat
FF DmDm G+G
But your girlfriend's earrings well they soon put pay to that
FF DmDm G+G C majorC
and if the whole world came crashing, down around your ears
FF DmDm G+G
You could dream of stucco wallpaper and crystal chandeliers
C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC
You cashed in your cards, you want to buy some glamour
FF DmDm G+G
You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope
C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC
A augmentedA thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics
FF DmDm G+G
They got you in hysterics, and walked off with your soul
FF DmDm G+G C majorC
and with that cheapskate, royalty, you get your flag and wave
FF DmDm G+G
Well I've seen you on TV grinning at the motorcade
FF DmDm G+G
C majorC
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes
FF DmDm G+G
And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape
C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC
You hung around too long, your mother read your letters
FF DmDm G+G
You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone
C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC
The time the morning slips, blends into the wallpaper
FF DmDm G+G
and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong
FF DmDm G+G C majorC
and your father's at the factory that makes money selling guns
FF DmDm G+G
That fought the wars that spent the lives of other peoples sons
FF DmDm G+G
C majorC
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes
FF DmDm G+G
And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape
C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC
You were born with football boots and a suntan complexion
FF DmDm G+G C majorC
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
FF DmDm G+G C majorC
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
FF DmDm G+G
C majorC